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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US aircraft carrier allegedly heading to Syrian waters amid turmoil with Iran
2019-12-08
[AlMasdar] The U.S. aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman, is passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and heading towards Syrian waters, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.

"An American aircraft carrier strike group led by the U.S.S. Harry Truman nuclear carrier has passed the Strait of Gibraltar and is currently heading straight for Russian military bases along the Syrian coast. Experts do not exclude that provocations directed against Syria and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
may be the key purpose of the appearance of the largest aircraft carrier here," Avia.Pro reported.

"The U.S.S. Harry Truman aircraft carrier group (ACG) includes a missile cruiser, several destroyers, and a Tomahawk cruise missile nuclear submarine from the sixth fleet of the U.S.," they said.

According to reports, the carrier with escort ships will be off the coast of Syria for some time with uncertain tasks, after which it will go to the Persian Gulf, where it will be replaced by the U.S.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which, due to the unfavorable situation with the state of the U.S. carrier fleet, is in the Middle East longer than planned.

It is not clear what the purpose of this mission will be and the U.S. Navy has not commented on the deployment of the U.S.S. Harry Truman.
Possibly it will include killing those people and breaking those things in need of it. Certainly by looming over the landscape it will provide a credible threat of both. Question: Is Saudi Arabia within reach of a carrier group hanging out near Damascus? Depending on what we learn about that Saudi 2nd lieutenant and his little friends, decisions may have to be made, none of which any longer depend on the Saudis continuing to pump oil.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Oil as well
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-08 16:02  

#1  Are they doing a "Freedom of Navigation" exercise because of the recent annexation of the Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey? Greece is not happy about Turkey's accord on sea boundaries with Libya.
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-08 14:40  

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